Solo to the Top of the World: Gus McLeod's Daring Record Flight, Used [Hardcover]

A modern trailblazer conquers one of the last aviation records in this harrowing, hilarious, and stirring adventure On April 17, 2000, Gus McLeod circled the geographic North Pole in a 60-year-old, open-cockpit biplane, a goal that had eluded aviation pioneers for a century, and the climax of a two-year odyssey of harrowing physical, mechanical, and natural obstacles. Called crazy and worse, the irrepressible McLeod formed a team that included a car mechanic, a chase pilot who had just earned his license, and an historic Stearman trainer held together with duct tape, jerry-rigged ingenuity, and snow-blind faith. This nonstop page-turner will have readers laughing out loud, crying, and shaking their heads in disbelief as McCleod and his motley troupe of quipping, quarreling characters bounce from scrapes with disaster, to soaring triumphs, to side-splitting encounters with the revolving cast of eskimos, renegades, and bush pilots that await them at each stop on Canada?s frozen tundra. With death only a gust of frigid wind or a gallon of bad gas away, McLeod learns life-transforming lessons about the importance of family, friends, and self- identity. Defiantly out of the ordinary and rich in human dimensions far beyond a death-defying flight in the frozen Arctic, Solo to the Top of the World is a soul-stirring, heart-warming adventure for all seekers and dreamers, winged or earthbound.

Solo to the Top of the World: Gus McLeod's Daring Record Flight, Used [Hardcover]